George P. Bush was talking about his future political plans – and how Donald Trump wouldn’t reshape them – when two women approached, giddy with excitement.
They wanted pictures with a man whose photogenic smile once landed him on People magazine’s most-eligible bachelors list. Up close, though, they saw something unexpected.
“You look like your dad,” Ruth Ann Pratt, a retired college math teacher from Lake Jackson, near Houston, finally exclaimed. “You turn slightly to the side, and you ARE your dad.”
Bush only smiled. These days, being associated with his father, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, may not be such a great thing.
Eighteen months after he was elected Texas land commissioner and a few weeks past his 40th birthday, Bush is quietly continuing his family’s legacy. The grandson of one former president and nephew of another, he remains a rising star in America’s largest conservative state and is keeping alive the possibility that a political dynasty declared dead by many when his dad flamed out of the presidential race could yet again return to national prominence.